dotancohen

Segue to something that I've been fighting with for years: Do you have a suggestion for working with CSVs in the CLI?

Something that will show a table, with a single pixel border between cells, that allows searching for a value, copying a cell?

walrus

It depends what I'm doing, but I typically use one of the following (starting with the most frequent):

1. IPython with Pandas if I expect to do any in-depth exploration/manipulation of the data.

2. A short Python script like `python -c 'import csv, sys; r = csv.reader(sys.stdin); ...'

3. https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv if I want to quickly munge some data or extract a field.

4. Gnumeric if I want a GUI.

5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.

dotancohen

  > 5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want
  > a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.

Thank you! Yes, this seems to be almost perfect. I cannot believe that there is no "arbitrary string search" feature, but I can grep in another terminal window at least.

Thank you.